10-24-2011, 07:32 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: NE Oklahoma,
OK
Cobra Make, Engine: Fords
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Originally Posted by RICK LAKE
".............. He want to turn 7,000 rpms with a stock block, without it being filled in the coolant passages for strength, no main cap support or 4 bolt main. Cast crank pistons and off the self rods. Good luck, it will be a short fairy tale. ..........."
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Originally Posted by RICK LAKE
"............... This motor will tear it's guts out trying to meet both a idle of 700 rpms and a 7,000 rpm red line. ......"
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starting with your assertion above, I can't figure out how thousands of 289 Hi-Po's have been hitting 7000 rpm regularly over the past 45 years ? They don't have any of the features you list above. (full disclosure: my engine had no trouble keeping it's "guts" together with the original cast pistons for 35 years, but I changed to +0.020" forged pistons anyway about 10 years ago.).
Long live the fairy tale.
p.s. Can't meet the 700 rpm idle mark though, 800 is about as low as is reliable, ymmv.
Z.
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